Shuttle has unleashed the Shuttle X500V with pre-installed OpenSUSE 11.1. Linux users can save over $100 when opting for this system as opposed to Vista.

Thin client specialist Igel Technology offers a new installation method: its Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) is a USB stick that installs a homegrown Linux version on thin clients of various manufacturers as well as old PCs.

In the latest Alpha version of Karmic Koala, Canonical has included a number of software updates, and say testers should expect some substantial bugs.

The new version of the Red Hat Satellite server expands functionality, including in the areas of client management and the API.

The new KDE star in Twitter heaven is Choqok. In version 0.6.6 the main developer has changed the color of its icon from blue to green.

Digium, makers of Asterisk telephony solutions, and VoIP provider Skype have announced a one-year development period for a Skype plugin to the free telephony service.

The Mozilla Project has updated its roadmap for the coming versions of Firefox. The next big release, Firefox 4.0 with Geko1.9.4 underneath, is scheduled for the end of 2010.

KDE developer Jan Kundrat presents a new IMAP mail client named Trojitá. The Qt4 program developed for his bachelor thesis should be ready for prime time in the next months.

Announced at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 update intends to set the groundwork for future virtualization products and cloud computing.

The LXDE team is working on a lite variant of Ubuntu that will run on PCs with less than 265 MB. First images are now ready to test.